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Our new label Sweet Gee Records goes LIVE today. The link provided below will allow you to view our catalogue of work that is now available under one roof…a dream come true! Check out all of our projects and sign up for updates. Listen a little… listen a lot. We did all the work getting it all together in one place so you can just listen for a while.

Lisa Kekaula, Craig Waters, Nico Miles and Robert Vennum

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Check this out… we are featured in this months MOJO playing our version of AC/DC’s “Highway to Hell” from our album COVERS now available on our new label Sweet Gee Records.

February 2024 issue of MOJO magazine featuring The BellRays covering AC/DC's "Highway To Hell" on the CD

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BIO

Blues is the teacher. Punk is the Preacher. It’s all about emotion and energy. Experience and raw talent, spirit and intellect. Exciting things happen when these things collide.

Bob Vennum and Lisa Kekaula made The BellRays happen in 1990 in Riverside, California but they weren’t really thinking about any of this then. They wanted to play music and they wanted it to feel good. They wanted people to WANT to get up, to NEED to get up and check out what was going on. Form an opinion. React.

So they took everything they knew about; the Beatles, Stevie Wonder, the Who, the Ramones Billie Holiday, Lou Rawls, Hank Williams, the DB’s, Jimmy Reed, and Led Zeppelin (to name a very few to whom “BLUES IS THE TEACHER”) and pressed it into service.

Those bands and artists have since become “buzz words”, things to imitate and sound like. That was never The BellRays intention. The BellRays were never about coming up with a “sound”, or fitting in with a scene. It was about the energy that made all that music so irresistible. The BellRays’ influences learned from the Blues and then learned how to to make it their own. The Beatles wanted to play R&B, converted that energy and invented “Rubber Soul”. The Ramones were trying to be Del Shannon or Neil Sedaka and out came “Rocket to Russia”.

It’s an organic trail that flows through Bob and Lisa and the current rhythm section  of Pablo Rodas (Lisa and the Lips, Alber Solo) on bass and Craig Waters (Countdowns, Andre Williams, Cody Chestnut) on drums, and comes out honest and urgent. You will learn and you will feel. Blues is always teaching and Punk is always preaching.

The BellRays are always listening.

PRESS

Rock and Roll Geek Show - June 6, 2023
>> American Heartbreak
The BellRays - Ball Of Confusion
>> Faster and Louder
Review: The BellRays - 'Ball Of Confusion/I Fall Down'
>> Whisperin and Hollerin
Five music things
>> The Organ
Californian Punk Blues Legends The BellRays Discuss Their Longevity, Their New 7” Single, Covering The Temptations and Their Continued Relevancy, Touring with Social Distortion, and the Death of Tina Turner
>> Post-Burnout
SoCal band the BellRays release a new single on Friday; set for summer North American tour with Social Distortion
>> Music Minded
The BellRays - Ball Of Confusion / I Fall Down
>> Real Gone
The BellRays Announce “Ball Of Confusion” 7″
>> Northern Transmissions
The BellRays to release new two-song single
>> Punk News
The BellRays Releasing “Ball Of Confusion” 7″ Single Ahead of Tour with Social Distortion
>> V13

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